Permaculture as a foundation for sustainable interaction design and UX

The main objective of this work is to gain an understanding of the relationships between UX and permaculture. This will deliver insights as to how digital media development can support the need for people to live and work in more ecologically conscious ways and how UX design can become more sustainable. In this respect, it is an attempt to produce sustainability both in and through design. We employ a makers approach to understanding permaculture and its relationships with UX in both physical and digital spaces. The work utilizes ideas from blending theory (Fauconnier and Turner, 2002) to generate conceptualizations of ecologically effective sustainable interaction design (SID) spaces. We employ material anchors to ground complex ideas of sustainability in augmented physical gardens.

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Callum Egan

David Benyon

Richard Thompson

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Publication date: July 2017

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.93

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)

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Conference number: 31

Conference location: Sunderland, UK

Conference date: 3 - 6 July 2017

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Conference theme: digital make-believe, with delegates considering our expansive

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[1] C. Alexander,S. Ishikawa,M. Silverstein, 1977 A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction.

[2] Graham Bell 1994 The Permaculture Garden. Permanent Publications Hampshire, UK.

[3] D. Benyon 2014 Spaces of Interaction, Places for Experience Morgan and Claypool Pennsylvania

[4] D. R. Benyon 2012 Presence in Blended Spaces Interacting with Computers. 24 4 219 226

[5] D. R. Benyon 2017 Designing User Experience: a guide to HCI, UX and interaction design. Pearson

[6] D. R. BenyonO. Mival 2015 Blended Spaces for Collaboration Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Work. 24 2 2015 223 249

[7] D. R. BenyonA. Resmini 2016 Public Transport Commuting as a Cross-channel Experience in Blended Space Proceedings of Workshop on Experience Design for Multiple Customer Touchpoints. Gothenburg October

[8] E. BlevisS. C. Morse 2009 Food, Dude Interactions, 16 2 58 62

[9] S. BodkerC. Klokmose 2016 Dynamics, Multiplicity and Conceptual Blends in HCI In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems CHI ‘16

[10] M. BraungartW. McDonough 2008 Cradle to Cradle - Remaking the Way We Make Things. Vintage Books London

[11] A. ClearC. PriestS JoshiL. NathanS. MannB. Nardi Expanding the Boundaries: A SIGCHIHCI & Sustainability Workshop CHI'15 Extended Abstracts,

[12] C. DiSalvoP. SengersH. Brynjarsdóttir 2010 Mapping the Landscape of Sustainable HCI Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems CHI 10

[13] P. Dourish 2010 HCI and Environmental Sustainability: The Politics of Design and the Design of Politics Proc. of DIS.

[14] D. S. J. S. Dryzek 2005 Debating the Earth. The Environmental Politics Reader Debating the Earth. The Environmental Politics Reader 302 319

[15] C. Egan 2017 Permaculture Experiences website: http://www.callumegan.co.uk 12/05/2017

[16] G. FauconnierM. Turner 2002 The Way We Think. Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexity Basic Books

[17] T. HirschP. SengersE. BlevisR. BeckwithT. Parikh 2010 Making food, producing sustainability Proceedings of the 28th of the International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA ’10 D. Holmgren 2002 Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability Holmgren Design Services

[18] D. Holmgren 2014 How To Change The World With Permaculture Video October 3 2015 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVS45dbNL-E

[19] K. HoshiJ. WaterworthJ. 2009 Tangible Presence in Blended Reality Space Proceedings of Presence 2009

[20] E. Hutchins 2005 Material anchors for conceptual blends Journal of pragmatics. 37 10 1555 1577

[21] M. ImazD. Benyon 2007 Designing with Blends - Conceptual Foundations of HumanComputer interaction and Software Engineering. The MIT Press

[22] T. Ingold 2013 Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture Routledge

[23] Tim Ingold 2013 Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture Routledge

[24] HC. JetterH. ReitererF. Geyer 2014 Blended Interaction: understanding natural human-computer interaction in post-WIMP interactive spaces Personal Ubiquitous Computing. 18 5 1139 1158

[25] B. KnowlesL. BlairP. CoultonM. Lochrie 2014 Rethinking Plan A for Sustainable HCI Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems CHI ‘14

[26] B. KnowlesL. BlairM. HazasS. Walker 2013 Exploring Sustainability Research in Computing: Where we are and where we go next? Proc. of UBICOMP.

[27] Latour Bruno 2014 Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene - a personal view of what is to be studied October 1 2015 from http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/139-AAA-Washington.pdf

[28] C. P. Lee 2007 Boundary negotiating artifacts: Unbinding the routine of boundary objects and embracing chaos in collaborative work Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 16 3 307 339

[29] Mark HassenzahlNoam Tratisnsky 2006 User experience - a research agenda Behaviour & Information Technology, 25 2

[30] J. McCarthyP. Wright 2004 Technology as experience. The MIT Press.

[31] B. Mollison 1988 Permaculture: A Designers Manual Tagari Publications 2nd edition Dec. 1988

[32] B. MollisonR. Slay 1994 Introduction to Permaculture. Tagari Publications

[33] J. NortonS. BurkeB. Tomlinson 2014 Plant Guild Composer: An Interactive Online System to Support Back Yard Food Production Chi’14.

[34] B. O’KeefeD. R. Benyon 2016 Using the Blended Spaces Framework to design Heritage Stories with Schoolchildren International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction 6 7 16

[35] Perma 2017 Permaculture Association website: https://www.permaculture.org.uk/ 22 03 2017

[36] S. PinkK. MackleyV. MitchellM. HanrattyC. Escobar-TelloT. BhamraR. Morosanu 2013 Applying the lens of sensory ethnography to sustainable HCI aCm Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 20, 4, Article 25.

[37] E. ShoveM. PantzarM. Watson 2012 The Dynamics of Social Practice The dynamics of social practice. Everyday Life and how it Changes 1 19

[38] M. SilbermanB. KnowlesA. ClearT. Dillahunt 2014 Next Steps for Sustainable HCI ACM Interactions. 21 5 September 2014 66 69 DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2651820

[39] C. Storni 2015 A personal perspective on research through design ACM Interactions 22 4 June 2015 74 76 DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2786974

[40] B. TomlinsonE. BlevisB. NardiD.J. PattersonM. S. SilbermanY. Pan 2013 Collapse informatics and practice ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 20 4 1 26 http://doi.org/10.1145/2509404.2493431

[41] M. Turner 2017 http://markturner.org/blending.html#BOOKS 22/03/17

[42] H. H. Wang 2013 A case study on design with conceptual blending International Journal of Design Creativity. 1 109 122

[43] J. ZalasiewlczM. WilliamsW. SteffenP. Crutzen 2010 The New World of the Anthropocene Environmental Science and Technology 4 7 October 29 from http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es903118j

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